I’ve decided that I need to focus on just one, ok…two things after today’s class. For some reason, I was one of those people that just didn’t want to get hooked on Twitter and for many reasons that were mentioned by some of my classmates today. For one, I already feel like I stay super connected with friends, family and people with common interests via Facebook. Did I really need to add another platform to the social media mix? Isn’t Twitter just some ADHD version of Facebook? It seems so short and snappy. Is there any real substance to these tweets? And why do I feel so distracted when I’m trying to listen to and absorb what someone is saying yet there I am trying to tweet out what I’m taking in?
Well, today was only Day 2 of my Twitter life and I’m very slowly beginning to see some of the reasons why I might just one day feel the Twitter love. It started with me wondering what to write on my blog today. Then I thought to myself that a lot of us were actually recording all the goings on of the multiple mini presentations that took place in class today by using this very platform I had been resisting. Twitter was actually kind of useful because I could go back to all the tweets in this course’s hashtag and be reminded of what was talked about, what resources were mentioned and peek at links to articles etc. via my classmates’ tweets. Hey Twitter, you just took notes for me and I didn’t even have to write all of them myself!
Ok, so I said there were two things I was going to focus on for today. Got a little sidetracked with all that Twittering and Tweeting! The presentations in class today were awesome and I thank my colleagues for sharing: for sharing via Twitter, for sharing right up there in front of the class and for sharing via your blogs. You have all made me want to get super organized in an online way for the school year to come and I intend to begin that journey by setting up a classroom website. Michelle Bertrand, I am starting with you. I love that you made yourself transparent and open to suggestions and that you strive to constantly improve on what appears to me to be an amazingly well set up class site/blog. I shall look to you for inspiration and I shall follow you on Twitter. And I hope that I will have the framework for a website that I feel pretty comfy in come the end of this course.